Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category

Movie Synopsis…

After climbing Pampa High School’s popularity chain, taking her volleyball team to the State championship and founding the school’s first drugs, alcohol, and violence-free club, Amy Newhouse must now fight the biggest battle of her life – cancer.

Her open heart to the people of her school now sparks a passionate rally from the community around her. However, this passion dwindles as her cancer metastasizes. Her cancer appears to miraculously heal, but just as it seems the community has prevailed and the battle won, Amy discovers the deadly disease has returned and is incurable.

Her prayers for healing continue, but with the seemingly dried-up support of her community, and an apparent “no” from God, Amy contemplates facing the one battle she cannot win. As her health wanes, she reflects upon God’s tender love at Pampa High, the exponential growth of her club, and the redemption of her school of the once-rampant violence, drugs, and alcohol that she so passionately fought against. Through it all, God proves to doubters that regardless of the circumstances, He has a “Greater Yes” for His children.

My Thoughts…

I enjoyed A Greater Yes and was encouraged to know that it was based off a true story. The main character was truly devoted to God and in all ways was attempting to give Him control in every area of her life. She was a breath of fresh air in many ways! Oh how we all should take after her example in serving such as Christ taught us to do.

A Greater Yes is a movie that sheds light on that even when we think God’s not around, that He is and that through it all we should not doubt but trust in His greater plan for our lives.

I  would not hesitate to recommend A Greater Yes to those looking for movies to show to groups of teens or to watch as a family! I would also suggest having a tissue box handy as this film is a real tear jerker.

Disclaimer: I was given A Greater Yes to review from Pure Flix. This review is 100% my opinion and has not been edited or reviewed by anyone. I was not compensated in any other way for this product review other than receiving a review copy of this movie.

A few weeks ago, I briefly introduced Eeebee and posted an informative video on how Eebee encourages parent and child interaction in each of his adventures. If you missed that post and would like to view the creator interview video, please visit the following link: “Have You Heard about Eebee?”

About Eebee…

Eebee’s adventures are designed to engage you and your baby with rich play experiences that provide powerful lessons that memorizing letters, numbers, colors and shapes simply can and do not.

Watching and, importantly, “doing” eebee’s adventures will allow you and your baby to see and learn first-hand what happens when you explore a crinkly, crunchy, smooth and bumpy paper mountain or roll, bounce, bop, bang, slide and toss your way around a world of balls and ramps.

We know that when your child is playing, she is actively trying to figure things out about objects and people—why did that ball roll and the block slide? How did he do that? Why did that happen?… The questions, theories and solutions just continue to evolve as your child develops and masters a myriad of critical physical, social and intellectual skills—playing and learning about how the world works and he works in it.

Every parent can recount a time when their infant headed straight for that curtain to give it a pull; or happily opted to tear the wrapping paper rather then engage with the gift; or tried and tried to get the round peg into the square hole; or simply offered you whatever was in their hand.

Every baby learns by doing.

My Thoughts…

The good people over at Eebee’s Adventures site sent my daughter and I three DVD’s (Exploring Real Stuff, All in a Day’s Play, and Figuring Things Out) and an Eebee Hand puppet for review.

Each of the Eebee Adventures DVD ‘s contain three ten minute sections of Eebee and his friends exploring and trying out new things like turning on and off lights, tearing paper, playing peek a boo, and climbing up blocks. The fact that I can pop it in my DVD player and it auto starts is a great feature too!

My daughter has a lot of fun watching Eebee though she is 16.5 months old and has already learned all the skills taught in these videos. She still enjoys watching Eebee and the other babies, singing along,and dancing to the music! I’m including a video I took of my daughter watching Eebee. As you can see she’s pretty excited and keeps saying Eebee over and over again! I also have the Eebee theme song stuck in my head, such a catchy tune!

I really like the fact that Eebee’s Adventures encourages time with parents to interact with their children. I couldn’t agree more with the fact that this is one of the best designed DVD series out there to engage you and your baby. Many of Eebee’s products  have even received  Parents’ Choice Awards!

Eebee adventures also has many other products available that promote parent and child interaction such as books and play gift sets.

I would like to encourage you to check out Eebee.com as you can access some well put together printable activity guides!

Win it: One of my readers is going to have the chance to receive the Eebee Threebee which is all three of the Eebee DVDs!

To Enter: Visit Eebee.com and tell me what other product you would love to have other than the DVDs or the Puppet.

Extras:

* Add me to your blogroll or add my button.
* Blog it, link back to this post. (3 extra)
* Favorite my blog on Technorati (2 extra)
* Friend/Fan @ Facebook
* Subscribe by email/RSS. (2 extra)
* Follow on Twitter @erinlowmaster & Tweet (daily entries available)

Non, bloggers & bloggers alike…

* Email a friend about this giveaway. (Leave name of friend)

Tweet: (copy/paste)

Win three interactive DVD’s from Eebee! @erinlowmaster (add url)

This Giveaway is only open to U.S and Canada

Please leave separate comments for each additional entry, i.e.: if you blog about it leave 2 separate comments.

Giveaway running till 11/30/09 . Winners will be notified shortly afterward by email. Please respond within 48 hours or you forfeit your prize to another participant.

Disclaimer: I was given three dvds and a puppet for review from Eebee’s Adventures. This review is 100% my opinion and has not been edited or reviewed by anyone. I was not compensated in any other way for this product review.

I’m excited to announce that for the first time in 7 years, Disney is opening the vault and releasing ‘The One That Started It All’, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This movie is being released in high-definition Blu-ray for the first time ever on October 6!

I received an advance copy of this for review from the One2One Network as part of a campaign to spread the word.